People have looked to the sunset as a source of inspiration and reflection, and the Bible is filled with verses that capture the wonder and awe of this daily spectacle. Find inspiration in a Bible verse about sunsets from the list below, delving into meaningful Scriptures that touch on themes of hope, renewal, and God’s eternal presence.

The Sun as a Symbol

• Psalm 84:11 “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.”
• Malachi 4:2 “But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.”
• Ecclesiastes 11:7 “Light is sweet, and it pleases the eyes to see the sun.”
• Psalm 19:4b-6 “In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.”
• Isaiah 60:20 “Your sun will never set again, and your moon will wane no more; the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.”
• Psalm 72:17 “May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun. Then all nations will be blessed through him, and they will call him blessed.”
• Psalm 74:16 “The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon.”
• Ecclesiastes 1:5 “The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.”
• Psalm 136:8 “The sun to govern the day, His love endures forever.”
• Jeremiah 31:35 “This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord Almighty is his name.”

Evening Prayers and Reflections

• Psalm 141:2 “May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.”
• Psalm 4:8 “In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.”
• Psalm 55:17 “Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice.”
• Psalm 104:23 “Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening.”
• Psalm 92:1-2 “It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night.”
• Mark 1:32 “That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed.”
• Matthew 14:23 “After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone.”
• Exodus 12:6 “Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.”
• Leviticus 22:6-7 “The person who touches any such thing will be unclean until evening. He must not eat of the sacred offerings unless he has bathed his body in water. When the sun goes down, he will be clean, and after that, he may eat of the sacred offerings, for they are his food.”
• Deuteronomy 16:6 “but at the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.”
• Micah 7:8 – “Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”
• Isaiah 9:2 – “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

The Transition from Day to Night

• Exodus 17:12 “When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset.”
• Nehemiah 13:19 “When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.”
• Mark 11:19 “When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.”
• Luke 4:40 “At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them.”
• Deuteronomy 23:11 “But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.”
• Joshua 8:29 “He hung the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take his body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.”
• Judges 14:18 “Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him, ‘What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?’ Samson said to them, ‘If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle.'”
• Matthew 16:2-3 “He replied, ‘When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.'”

Reflections on God’s Faithfulness at Day’s End

• Psalm 92:2 “To declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night,”
• Psalm 134:1 “Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who minister by night in the house of the Lord.”
• Isaiah 26:9 “My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.”
• Job 17:12 “They change the night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.'”
• Psalm 16:7 “I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.”
• Psalm 77:6 “I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked:”

The Beauty of God’s Creation at Sunset

• Psalm 104:31 “May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works—”
• Psalm 65:8 “Those living far away fear your wonders; where morning dawns and evening fades you call forth songs of joy.”
• Psalm 107:31 “Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind,”
• Job 26:7 “He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.”
• Psalm 50:1 “The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets.”
• Psalm 72:5 “May they fear you as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon, throughout all generations.”
• Psalm 89:37 “It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”
• Genesis 28:17 “He was afraid and said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.'”

The Promise of Renewal with Each Sunset

• 2 Corinthians 4:16 “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”
• Lamentations 3:22-23 “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
• Ephesians 4:23-24 “To be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”
• Colossians 3:10 “And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.”
• Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
• Isaiah 40:31 “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
• Titus 3:5 “He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,”
• Romans 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
• Psalm 85:6 “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?”
• Micah 7:18-19 “Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.”

Seeking God in the Quiet of Evening

• Psalm 17:3 “Though you probe my heart, though you examine me at night and test me, you will find that I have planned no evil; my mouth has not transgressed.”
• Psalm 63:6-7 “On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.”
• Psalm 4:4 “Tremble and do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent.”
• Mark 6:46-47 “After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray. When evening came, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was alone on land.”
• Luke 6:12 “One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.”
• Psalm 139:11-12 “If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.”
• Jeremiah 29:12 “Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”

The Significance of Nightfall in Scripture

• Exodus 12:42 “Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.”
• Psalm 30:5 “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
• Genesis 1:5 “God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’ And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.”
• Exodus 14:20 “Coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.”
• Nehemiah 4:9 “But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat.”
• Psalm 90:4 “For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.”
• Luke 2:8 “And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.”
• Mark 13:35 “Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.”
• Psalm 104:20 “You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl.”
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2 “For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”

God’s Protection Through the Night

• Psalm 121:5-6 “The Lord watches over you— the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.”
• Psalm 91:5-6 “You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.”
• Exodus 13:21 “By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.”
• Psalm 3:5 “I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.”
• Proverbs 3:24 “When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.”
• Psalm 27:1 “The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”
• Deuteronomy 31:8 “The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”
• Psalm 23:4 “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
• Acts 12:6-7 “The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. ‘Quick, get up!’ he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.”

Hope and Guidance at Dawn

• Psalm 5:3 “In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.”
• Psalm 130:6 “My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.”
• Psalm 143:8 “Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.”
• Proverbs 4:18 “The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.”
• Lamentations 3:23 “They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
• Isaiah 50:4 “The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.”
• Psalm 59:16 “But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.”
• Psalm 90:14 “Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.”
• Hosea 6:3 “Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
• Isaiah 58:8 “Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.”

The Night as a Time for God’s Word and Prayer

• Psalm 119:55 “In the night, Lord, I remember your name, that I may keep your law.”
• Psalm 119:62 “At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws.”
• Psalm 6:6 “I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.”
• Acts 16:25 “About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.”
• Luke 18:1 “Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.”
• Psalm 1:2 “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”
• Psalm 77:2 “When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted.”

The Celebration of God’s Creation

• Genesis 1:31 “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.”
• Psalm 8:1 “Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens.”
• Psalm 19:1-2 “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.”
• Psalm 96:12 “Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.”
• Job 12:7-10 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”
• Psalm 148:3-5 “Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars. Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies. Let them praise the name of the Lord, for at his command they were created.”
• Job 37:14 “Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders.”

Meditation and God’s Presence in the Stillness of Night

• Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
• 1 Kings 19:11-12 “The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.”
• Job 4:13 “Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,”
• Psalm 119:148 “My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises.”
• Psalm 42:8 “By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.”

Faith’s Journey from Evening to Morning

• Romans 13:12 – The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
• Ephesians 5:8 – For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.
• 1 Peter 2:9 – But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
• Psalm 112:4 – Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.

The Eternal Light Beyond Night

• Revelation 21:23 – The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
• Revelation 22:5 – There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.
• John 8:12 – When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• Isaiah 60:19 – The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
• Psalm 36:9 – For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

Divine Wisdom in Creation

• Proverbs 3:19-20 – “By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.”
• Job 28:24-27 – “For he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters, when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm, then he looked at wisdom and appraised it; he confirmed it and tested it.”
• Psalm 104:24-25 – “How many are your works, Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number— living things both large and small.”
• Jeremiah 10:12 – “But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.”
• Psalm 136:5 – “Who by his understanding made the heavens, His love endures forever.”
• Proverbs 8:22-31 – Describes wisdom’s role in creation, personified as being present when God established the heavens, the sea, and the foundations of the earth.

Trust in God Through the Changing Seasons

• Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 – “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot…”
• Daniel 2:21 – “He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.”
• Genesis 8:22 – “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
• Psalm 1:3 – “That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.”
• Jeremiah 5:24 – “They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.'”
• James 5:7 – “Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.”

Conclusion

A Bible verse about sunsets offers beauty, hope, and spiritual connection. May each sunset become a sacred moment, a canvas painted with the hues of divine wisdom. Let these verses linger in your heart, offering comfort, inspiration, and a reminder of the eternal grace found in the closing chapters of each day.